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What do ............... Established
in 1968 in a 30,000 square foot former Masonic Temple, The Village
is a multi-story, multi-studio complex featuring the best of both
vintage and modern gear. Its historic Studio D, one of the largest
studios in Los Angeles, has a spacious live recording room with
three iso booths and a live echo reverb chamber connected, via audio
and video tie lines, to the building’s second floor 4000 square
foot performance space, complete with stage and chandeliers. Studio D was
the first studio in the world to purchase the acclaimed Neve 88R
console.
To be a fly
on The Village’s walls would make one a witness to legendary
recording sessions of Rock and Roll history, including The Rolling
Stones’ Goat’s Head Soup, Fleetwood Mac’s
Tusk, Eric Clapton’s landmark, After Midnight,
as well as his Grammy Award-winning Tears in Heaven, most
Steely Dan records including Aja, numerous Bob Dylan records,
as well as modern blockbusters including the last three Smashing
Pumpkins releases, The Wallflowers, Rage Against The Machine, Melissa
Etheridge, The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ By the Way, the
Foo Fighters’ One By One, and Nelly’s blockbuster
Nellyville.
The recent buzz
at The Village is due, in part, to almost daily live recordings
in the facility's Neve 88R-equipped Studio D, where the nation’s
hottest radio program, KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, broadcasts
some of the most exciting music to be found on the air--or on the
‘Net. Helmed by influential tastemaker Nic Harcourt, the morning
sessions at The Village are not only broadcast in real time but
are also simulcast and archived on KCRW.com.
In one recent week alone, Village staff engineer Ghian Wright recorded
Morning Becomes Eclectic sets by The Swell Season, Bat For Lashes
and M.I.A and red hot up-and-comers The Magic Numbers, Koop, The
Editors and Ryan Adams. "Long before the Apple Computer Company revolutionized the way people listened to music with the iPod, iTunes, and the iTunes Music Store, The Village was using Apple Computers exclusively to record the hits that would eventually wind up on millions of iPods," says Greenberg. According to Jeff, The Village was one of the very first professional recording studios in the country to completely embrace the Apple platform.
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Sarah Mclachlan and Nic Harcourt For the past three years, The Village has been nominated as studio of the year by the readers of Mix magazine. 2006 outstanding film sound production for walk the line 
Jonathan Davis
Jeff states, “Our Storage Area Network is a centralized server that sends all of the sessions through fiber to a secure block of hard disks with a RAID configuration. A dedicated Apple Macintosh G5 CPU backs-up all of the data on a nightly basis, ensuring security and redundancy for all of our sessions.” keep this paragraph  studio D with Neve 88R All Village
Studios use Apple Macintosh G5 with an Apple Cinema Display, again
running ProTools, with all sessions recorded to the Storage Area
Network. Stone Temple
Pilots recorded their latest CD, 4, and it was the Smashing
Pumpkins’ studio-of-choice where they recorded their last three
CDs. And, as rumor has it, Guns & Roses have been holed up in
B working on a famously forthcoming CD. Studio F (designed
by Vincent VanHaaf) recorded Missy Elliot’s Under Construction,
and Nelly’s Nellyville, two of the most successful hip-hop
albums of 2002/2003.
Other engineers and producers hard at work at The Village on recent projects have been producer Ry Cooder, Steve Berlin with engineer Robert Carranza recording Los Lobos, R&B giants Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis producing Usher with Ian Cross engineering.
Contact: Darren
Frank, Studio Manager
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Open
the door and enter The Village! 
